Tangney has chosen to focus on the Fremantle Port, a place she has previously investigated. Those visiting this show will encounter familiar fare in her always lush, evocative and atmospheric images of the harbour. As usual, they capture the industrial area, with all its shifting moods and depths.
Coming at them from obscure perspectives - Tangney fashions a sensation of delicious vertigo. Her rendition of the port’s water, machinery and container ships offers the viewer a mix of close-up and long shots that pulls them into a world that promises to envelop them. In doing so, Tangney has proved she has an enviable grasp over colour and paint application. It is a lovely light touch that gives just the right amount of information without giving too much away and spoiling the sensation of being thrown off kilter.
Dr Robert Cook,
Excerpt: West Australian - May 2000(right) Port Fragments, 2000
2 Places, Fremantle Arts Centre
Commission – 2015, oil on canvas, 170 x 135 cm
Installation – Fremantle Arts Centre
Wilhelmsen #2, 2000, oil on canvas, 83 x 274 cm
Sheds – North Quay, 2000, oil on canvas, 83 x 274 cm
Shipment, 2000, oil on canvas, 126 x 220 cm
North Quay - Green, 1999, oil on canvas, 90 x 120 cm
Container Yard, 1999, oil on canvas, 70 x 140 cm
Eurogracht, 1999, oil on canvas, 140 x 135 cm
Wharf #19, 1999, oil on canvas, 140 x 135 cm
Untitled, 1999, oil on canvas, each 24 x 20 cm
Inner Harbour, 1999, oil on canvas, 73 x 180 cm
Untitled, 2000, oil on canvas, each 35 x 25 cm
Harbourside II, 1998, oil on paper, 125 x 80 cm
Sheds, 1998, oil on paper, 60 x 60 cm